This is exactly what happens if you change username or passwordGo to Control Center > Passwords and Encryption keys > Edit > Preferences > Password keyringsThen change to your new passwordThis is not changed when you change passwords and needs to be the same not to pop up like it does for you

Let me get this right, so you have changed yr password and root password as well. In Mint 5 yr keyring usually authenticates when you log in if my understanding is correct. Therefore, because yr password id different now keyring will not automatically do this. I suggest this (BUT DO GO CHECK AROUND GOOGLE BEFORE YOU ATTEMPT THIS!) You may find that a good way to solve this is to delete the keyring file. When you try to connect using the network manager, keyring will ask you for a new password. (MAKE SURE IT IS THE SAME AS YR LOGIN PASSWORD!) Hence the authentication is taken care of at login. If you automatically log in without a password you need to switch this off as keyring would still ask you for a password. Paste this into a terminal and hit enter if you wish to delete the keyring file:

rm ~/.gnome2/keyrings/default.keyring

Can I also suggest that you may consider changing yr network manager to an application called 'wicd'. As far as I am aware this does not use keyring and I have used it with one or two not so good wireless hacks and it seemed more stable. It looks a little different but its not hard to figure. (NOTE AGAIN, HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A GOOGLE BEFORE YOU TAKE THIS SUGGESTION IN ORDER TO GET A BALANCED VIEW, SOMEBODY ELSE MAY HAVE A BETTER IDEA) If you want to install 'wicd' then here is what to do. Open a terminal and paste in the following:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

When the editor appears on yr desktop, copy in the following on a new line at the bottom:

You will see yr system go off and get the key it needs to allow this repository to be used. When it has finished you will see an 'OK'. Now type:

aptitude update

You will now see all the Repositories verified. Now just install 'wicd'. Type:

aptitude install wicd

This will uninstall yr present network manager and install 'wicd'. To get it running just type wicd in a terminal. Cant remember if it will automatically start on reboot but if you check 'sessions' in 'preferences' it will tell you. If its not there just add it, its pretty straight forward. the command is:

I'm new(ish) to Linux and new to Mint so have been doing quite a bit of reading on this topic. The common theme to the solutions being provided is that people have changed their password. I have not, yet am still prompted for the keyring password on each boot. The keyring password already matched my account log in password but I changed it (to the same one) again just in case - still prompted for it.

So, what is happening is that the keyring is not unlocked at log-in, even though the keyring password matches my account password.

Now, in another forum it is stated that the Passwords and Encryption Keys/Edit/Preferences/ page should feature an option to select "Unlock at log in" (or some similar wording). It does not. THAT seems to be the problem - it's not that the keyring isn't unlocked at log-in, there's actually no way of telling it to. Without it the only solution I have found is leaving the keyring password blank.

This doesn't actually bother me overly as far as security is concerned, but I just hate stuff that doesn't work as it should.

Yep, my third paragraph, last line Although I realise you may have nodded off by then!

My issue is that this is a work around, not a solution. There is no point in providing this feature in Mint if it doesn't work....may as well just have the network manager remember the password and auto connect.

@ smac The keyring is part of gnomeThe option you say does not exist is found in Edit > PreferencesThat will open a box and you'll find two keyrings there - default and login, and that's the one(Provided you are on gnome - I'm not sure how it looks in the other DEs we have)

They say an image tells more than a thousand words - indeed You are missing the login keyringYou could try to create a new keyring - call it login (all lower case) and set the password to that of your account I don't know is if this keyring will act as the one created by the system when you install or just sit there useless but it can't hurt

smac wrote:DOn't know for sure, but I don't think it's order because if I delete the default key Network Manager still asks to access the default key....

That solves it thenFor some reason the login key was not created during install so the default was used and it is not unlocked at loginSo we have to find a way to use a keyring that is unlocked at login - the login keyring So the problem for you is to get NM to use the right keyring - but howI have to investigate and come back to you - I was not able to connect to the forums yesterday but others were so I have a lot to catch up on